BRISBANE, Australia - Top-seeded Andy Murray shifted up a gear in a 6-2, 6-2 win over Marcos Baghdatis on Friday to advance to the semifinals at the Brisbane International, his only tuneup before the Australian Open. Murray dropped the opening sets in his first two rounds here as he overcame soreness and stiffness from the off-season, but had no serious difficulty in dispatching doubles partner Baghdatis in little more than an hour. Murray has lost the last two Australian Open finals and recently hired Ivan Lendl to help him break his Grand Slam title drought. The Scot will next play eighth-seeded Bernard Tomic. The Australian teenager, a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon last year, converted the only breakpoint chance of the match to beat Uzbekistans Dennis Istomin 6-3, 7-6 (4). Murray saved both break points he faced against Baghdatis, the 2006 Australian Open runner-up, and converted all four of his own. After a difficult service game to hold in the fourth game of the second set, Murray broke in the fifth to take a 3-2 lead. He earned triple breakpoint two games later after a scrambling rally that included a shot between his legs that caught Baghdatis off guard. Murray secured a 5-2 lead on the next point when he successfully challenged a baseline call. "I played very well today ... moved very well from the start, which wasnt the case in the last two matches, so really, really happy," Murray said. "The aches and pains I had from the first two matches have gone, so its good." Murray has lost three major finals, and is desperate to end a drought for British men in Grand Slam singles that dates to 1936. Lendl, an eight-time Grand Slam titlist, arrived in Australia from the United States on Friday and was due to meet with Murray in Brisbane on Saturday to start fine-tuning for the Australian Open, which starts Jan. 16 in Melbourne. 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